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Download or read book Lak Chang written by Yos Santasombat and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Thai-Yunnan Project is proud to present this English-language version of Professor Yos Santasombat's fascinating ethnography of the Tai in Daikong, southwestern China. It represents a significant contribution to the ethnographic record of the Tai peoples. The village of Lak Chang is located close to the edge of the Tai world and is increasingly embraced by Chinese influence. Professor Yos skilfully weaves ethnographic and historical writing to chart the course of Lak Chang's incorporation into the modern Chinese state. This has been a painful history but what emerges in this account is a sense of Tai cultural identity that is vigorous and adaptive. "The Tai ethnic category is thus a complex and dynamic construct which takes place within the context of changing power relations and socio-economic conditions where the past is reconstructed to give meaning to the present and hope for the future." In his account of the labours, rituals and beliefs of the Tai villagers of Daikong, Professor Yos brings contemporary ethnic identity to their life. Among the patchwork paddyfields and haphazard laneways of Lak Chang we come to a greater understanding of how global and regional processes of modernisation are managed and selectively incorporated by one local community.
Book Synopsis Hybrid Communities by : Charles Stépanoff
Download or read book Hybrid Communities written by Charles Stépanoff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-08-06 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Domestication challenges our understanding of human-environment relationships because it blurs the dichotomy between what is artificial and what is natural. In domestication, biological evolution, environmental change, techniques and practices, anthropological trajectories and sociocultural choices are inextricably interconnected. Domestication is essentially a hybrid phenomenon that needs to be explored with hybrid scientific approaches. Hybrid Communities: Biosocial Approaches to Domestication and Other Trans-species Relationships attempts for the first time to explore domestication viewed from across disciplines both in its origins and as an ongoing process. This edited collection proposes new biosocial approaches and concepts which integrate the methods of social sciences, archaeology and biology to shed new light on domestication in diachrony and in synchrony. This book will be of great interest to all scholars working on human-environment relationships, and should also attract readers from the fields of social anthropology, archaeology, genetics, ecology, botany, zoology, history and philosophy.
Book Synopsis Thailand; Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names by : United States. Office of Geography
Download or read book Thailand; Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer by : United States Board on Geographic Names
Download or read book United States Board on Geographic Names: Gazetteer written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 688 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Asian Borderlands by : Charles Patterson Giersch
Download or read book Asian Borderlands written by Charles Patterson Giersch and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
Book Synopsis Burma by : United States. Office of Geography
Download or read book Burma written by United States. Office of Geography and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Book Synopsis Burma, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names by : United States Board on Geographic Names
Download or read book Burma, Official Standard Names Approved by the United States Board on Geographic Names written by United States Board on Geographic Names and published by Washington, D.C. : [The Board]. This book was released on 1966 with total page 736 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sea-wake and Jungle Trail by : Herbert Warington Smyth
Download or read book Sea-wake and Jungle Trail written by Herbert Warington Smyth and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Thailand’s Political Peasants by : Andrew Walker
Download or read book Thailand’s Political Peasants written by Andrew Walker and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2012-08-06 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a populist movement elected Thaksin Shinawatra as prime minister of Thailand in 2001, many of the country’s urban elite dismissed the outcome as just another symptom of rural corruption, a traditional patronage system dominated by local strongmen pressuring their neighbors through political bullying and vote-buying. In Thailand’s Political Peasants, however, Andrew Walker argues that the emergence of an entirely new socioeconomic dynamic has dramatically changed the relations of Thai peasants with the state, making them a political force to be reckoned with. Whereas their ancestors focused on subsistence, this generation of middle-income peasants seeks productive relationships with sources of state power, produces cash crops, and derives additional income through non-agricultural work. In the increasingly decentralized, disaggregated country, rural villagers and farmers have themselves become entrepreneurs and agents of the state at the local level, while the state has changed from an extractor of taxes to a supplier of subsidies and a patron of development projects. Thailand’s Political Peasants provides an original, provocative analysis that encourages an ethnographic rethinking of rural politics in rapidly developing countries. Drawing on six years of fieldwork in Ban Tiam, a rural village in northern Thailand, Walker shows how analyses of peasant politics that focus primarily on rebellion, resistance, and evasion are becoming less useful for understanding emergent forms of political society.
Download or read book Tai Culture written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand by : Dorling Kindersley
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand written by Dorling Kindersley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-08-02 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DK Eyewitness Thailand travel guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Thailand has to offer. Fully illustrated, it covers all the major destinations from Bangkok to Phuket and provides all the insider tips every visitor needs, whether you’re diving in Ko Tao, elephant riding in Chang Mai or marvelling at the monuments in Wat Si Chum. Plus, it’s packed with comprehensive listings of the best hotels, restaurants, shops and nightlife in each area for all budgets. You'll find 3D cutaways and floorplans of all the must-see sites including the Prasat Hin Phimai temple and the ancient city of Lop Buri; with reliable information about getting around this diverse country. DK Eyewitness Thailand explores the country’s ancient sites, temples and markets, as well as scenic walk and thematic tours. With all the sights, beaches and attractions listed place by place, DK Eyewitness Thailand is your essential travel companion. DK Eyewitness Thailand – showing you what others only tell you.
Book Synopsis DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Thailand by : DK
Download or read book DK Eyewitness Travel Guide Thailand written by DK and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-10-01 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DK Eyewitness Travel Guide: Thailand is your indispensable guide to this beautiful part of the world. This fully updated guide will lead you straight to the best attractions Thailand has to offer, whether you're traveling to major destinations such as Bangkok and Phuket or want to experience diving in Ko Tao, elephant riding in Chang Mai, or the monuments in Wat Si Chum. This guide includes unique cutaways, floor plans, and reconstructions of the must-see sites, plus street-by-street maps of all the fascinating cities and towns. This new-look guide is also packed with photographs and illustrations that lead you straight to the best attractions. This uniquely visual DK Eyewitness Travel Guide will help you discover everything region-by-region, from local festivals and markets to day trips around the countryside. Detailed listings will guide you to the best hotels, restaurants, bars, and shops for all budgets, while detailed practical information will help you to get around, whether by train, bus, or car. Plus, DK's excellent insider tips and essential local information will help you explore every corner of Thailand effortlessly.
Book Synopsis Corporate Conquests by : C. Patterson Giersch
Download or read book Corporate Conquests written by C. Patterson Giersch and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tenacious patterns of ethnic and economic inequality persist in the rural, largely minority regions of China's north- and southwest. Such inequality is commonly attributed to geography, access to resources, and recent political developments. In Corporate Conquests, C. Patterson Giersch provides a desperately-needed challenge to these conventional understandings by tracing the disempowerment of minority communities to the very beginnings of China's modern development. Focusing on the emergence of private and state corporations in Yunnan Province during the late 1800s and early 1900s, the book reveals how entrepreneurs centralized corporate power even as they expanded their businesses throughout the Southwest and into Tibet, Southeast Asia, and eastern China. Bringing wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyles to their hometowns, the merchant-owners also gained greater access to commodities at the expense of the Southwest's many indigenous minority communities. Meanwhile, new concepts of development shaped the creation of state-run corporations, which further concentrated resources in the hands of outsiders. The book reveals how important new ideas and structures of power, now central to the Communist Party's repertoire of rule and oppression, were forged, not along China's east coast, but along the nation's internal borderlands. It is a must-read for anyone wishing to learn about China's unique state capitalism and its contribution to inequality.
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Book Synopsis A Dictionary of Atong by : Seino van Breugel
Download or read book A Dictionary of Atong written by Seino van Breugel and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atong is a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in Northeast India and Bangladesh. In this dictionary, Seino van Breugel provides a rigorous, well-illustrated and well-referenced lexical description of the language, making this book of great interest and value to general linguists, typologists, as well as area specialists and cultural anthropologists. Comprising not only of an Atong-English, but also an English-Atong dictionary, as well as semantic lexica, this volume is one of the most thorough lexical descriptions of a Bodo-Garo language to date. The grammatical lexica allow the reader quick access to lists of members of the various Atong word classes, collocations and idiomatic expressions. The grammatical compendium makes this book self-contained, while its many references link it to the rest of the author’s corpus on the Atong language. The appendix of photos not only provides visual illustrations to many of the Atong dictionary entries, but also offers the reader a glance at the physical environment in which the language is spoken.
Book Synopsis Gazetteer to Maps of Thailand by : Thailand. Legation. United States
Download or read book Gazetteer to Maps of Thailand written by Thailand. Legation. United States and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 1014 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect ... by : William Dean
Download or read book First Lessons in the Tie-chiw Dialect ... written by William Dean and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
